Easter was such a crazy time, I didn’t even think to share about our Easter weekend, but I think I will now. Perhaps as a story to tell, but most like as a warning to all youth pastors and sponsors around.
So, Saturday night Will and I were in charge of the youth at our church for the pre-Easter sleepover, as it is the tradition of our church. The youth sleep over, then prepare a pancake supper for anyone who wants to get up by 8:00 before the Easter service on Sunday. The evening started off fairly well, as Will and I hid Kinder eggs all over the sanctuary, and had the youth find them. That turned out to be quite fun to watch, and the youth didn’t try to hide their excitement. One of them wasn’t found, and no doubt was discovered by an unsuspecting congregant the next morning. The youth then painted eggs, helped us set up for the morning, and played games.
After we watched a movie, I was ready for bed, and I thought everyone else was too (the girls had all set up their sleeping bags in the room with me, the guys in another room). Nope. After my first hour or so of some kind of sleep, I realized none of the girls were in the room with me. Maybe as a sponsor, or even as the pastors wife, it should have occured to me that I should go find them, but it didn’t. I fell back asleep. Later on in the night, a rush of girls ran past me, from one set of doors to the other. Huh?! Oh well…Zzzzzz. Later on that night, I mean morning, same thing. I was woken by a the girls running past me again, giggling and such. Huh?! Whatever….Zzzzz. Then, I woke up by 7am, to find that NONE of the girls were in the room sleeping, not even their sleeping bags!! HUH?!
We began preparations for the breakfast, and the girls told me they went to another room to watch a movie. Oh, okay. That seemed alright to me, until people started to tell Will and I how nice our car looked this morning, and how nice it was of us to decorate our car for Easter, and maybe we could have used more toilet paper. HUH?!
So, the moral of the story is, if you have a youth sleepover:
a) Don’t bother bringing a sleeping bag
b) Have less sugar around
and
c) Hide all the toilet paper!
P.S.
I have written an entry before this one for the same day!